Learn how to make my ‘Outside the Lines’ quilt. It’s a hybrid improv + pattern quilt, which was fun to design and to make as well. Step-by-step downloadable pattern and YouTube video on how to make a quilt from start to finish.
I used beautiful fabric, which features Indigenous artwork from the Warlu designers.

When you’re feeling like you’ve lost your making mojo, starting a project can be hard but satisfying. 100 day project is a great idea, but here’s some tips for starting smaller and turning routine into ritual

With these tips, you'll be able to create beautiful projects with your slow stitching. Ways to plan before you begin an improv quilt or stitched piece and ideas for how to fix a project you don’t love (which can happen in our work at times and becomes a 'learning' for the next piece).

I’m working through my WIPS, my UFOs and the emotions of the finishing vs not finishing things. I always save every little scrap of fabric and half-made thing just in case I ‘need’ it again. Throwing things away that could become something is hard.

“To weave the intricate tapestry of one’s own life, it is well to take a thread from many harmonious skeins - and to realise that there must be harmony. Not necessary to grow the sheep, comb the wool, colour and brand it - but joyfully take all that is ready, and with that saved time, go a great way further”.